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are pledged to defy and violently to overthrow both?

To which "insidious question" the World makes "frank answer" as follows :

This strain of remark and request for information proceed upon the unwarranted assumption that General Blair's letter is a part of the Democratic platform. But there is no process of fair reasoning by which it can be made to appear so. The Democratic National Convention adopted its platform before balloting for candidates, and without any expectation that Mr. Seymour would be its nominee for President or General Blair for Vice-President. Whatever candidates had been nominated, their acceptance would have bound their personal honor to the support of the platform, although it might have conflicted, in same respects, with their own declared views. Governor Seymour, not long before the Convention met, made a noteworthy speech on the payment of the public debt. Does the Times believe, or does anybody believe, that in nominating him the Convention indorsed all the views expressed in that speech? On the contrary, everybody admits that Governor Seymour, by accepting the nomination, yielded whatever in his previous views did not fully accord with platform. The same reasoning applies to General Blair. He is bound by precisely the same obligation of personal honor, if there is anything in his Broadhead letter inconsistent with the platform, he renounced it in accepting the nomination, just as Mr. Seymour made a similar renunciation if there was anything inconsistent with the platform in his financial speech. The candidates of a great political party stand in a representative capacity. Their honor, which forbids them to accept the nomination of the party unless they have previously agreed with it in essentials binds them to sink minor differences. Whatever the Times may think of the ethics of such matters, it cannot be permitted to make a different rule for the two candidates of the Democratic party. Our cotemporary must either hold that the Democratic party is pledged to all the previous views of Mr. Seymour, or else admit that the party is pledged to all the views expressed by General Blair previous to his nomination. The Times may take which horn of this dilemma it pleases, but we shall force it upon one of them.

In our opinion, the contingency contemplated by General Blair in his Broadhead letter is never likely to arise. The example of Georgia demonstrates that everything desirable can be accomplished through the agency of the new State governments. The fact that, in the greater part of the South, the white citizens are a majority, and that they monopolize the property, the education, the social influence, and the political experience of their section, prove that, if let alone, they can mould their institutions into any form they please. There will be no need of dispersing the new governments by force, because they can so easily be made the agents of their own reformation. Encouraged and false pretences; and Congress may vindicate its integrity and punish the fraud by refusing to receive the Georgia senators and representatives. That step would virtually be a declaration that the reconstruction of the Senate is still incomplete.

Now, whatever may be thought of this remedy in other respects, the Times must perceive that it cannot work when we come to have a Democratic President and House of Representatives. All that Congress could do at the next session, would be to satisfy itself and make itself a laughing stock, by expelling the carpet bag members it has just admitted, and covering with derision the first plank of the Chicago platform, which congratulates the country on the perfect success of the reconstruction policy. But as soon as there is Democratic House, the Republicans are checkmated. The joint resolution readmitting the States and sanctioning their governments cannot ne repealed without the concurrence of both Houses; and, until it is repealed, neither can refuse to admit members on the ground that there is no valid State government. The Times must therefore see that its party will be bound, hand and foot, in letters of its own forging. There will be no necessity for demolishing the gallows erected by IIaman, when he can so easily be hanged on it himself. 

A LATER DECLARATION.

The New York World of Saturday last has another leader on the same subject as the above, and even more unmistakable in its drift. We quote the more important portions of the article:

THE GREAT BUGBEAR.

The chief topic of Republican invective, since the opening of the canvass, is the imputed intention of the Democratic party to disperse the carpet-bag governments by force after the inauguration of Seymour and Blair. The Times, if we understand its rejoinder to the World yesterday, admits that this imputation cannot be sustained unless it is a logical sequence of the Democratic platform. This puts the controversy on its true ground; and on that ground we proceed to show that the imputed invention is a baseless chimera. 

The Times, arguing from the platform, rests its case on the declaration that the Reconstruction acts are "usurpations——unconstitutional, revolutionary and void," and on the fact that this clause was inserted in the platform at the instance of General Wade Hampton. The fact that Wade Hampton suggested it signifies nothing, unless it can be shown that it is a doctrine which the Democratic party had not previously held. Now, it is notorious that this is a subject on which there has never been any difference on opinion in the Democratic ranks. From the very inception of the Reconstruction acts the Democratic party has, to a man, consistently and indignantly denounced them as high handed usurpations and flagrant violations of the constitution. Every speech made against them in Congress, by every Democratic member, has proceeded upon that ground. All of President Johnson's numerous veto [[?]] will be successful if endorsed by the public opinion of the country in the Presidential election. No force will be resorted to —— none will be necessary. The same majority which suffices to get control of the present State governments will also suffice to alter the State constitutions. With a Democratic President and House of Representatives, Congress cannot interfere to prevent the change, and immunity from such interference is all the Southern people need expect or ask.

THE OTHER SIDE.

It must not be supposed, however, that the views of the World given above have been permitted to pass altogether unchallenged. Brick pomeroy, in his New York Democrat, takes up the cudgel on the other side in earnest. In Friday's issue of the paper, we find the following characteristic editorial, which speaks for itself :

HONESTY THE BEST POLICY.

If there is anything in his Brodhead letter inconsissent with the platform, be renounced it in accepting the nomination.

[World.

None but a recreant Republican could have written that sentence. None but a member of the bread and butter brigade would stoop so low and lie so basely as did the man who wrote that line.

The World knows, we know, every member of the Convention knows, that Frank Blair's letter secured to Frank Blair the nomination, and made him the favorite with some even for the first position on the ticket. Stand by your guns, if you have any, Mr. Worldly wise man; but whatever else you do, don't hope nor try to involve the party that pays you in any cowardly desertion of its principles or its leaders.

Frank Blair's letter is a part of the platform. Thank God he is not a marble that can wabble backward and forward from platform to platform like a sick rat for toasted cheese. He wrote that letter for two human reasons :

1. He knew what he meant and wished the public to know it, too.

2. He desired a nomination, and deemed that a good way to get it.

He was right, it seems, and no man can more heartily despise the journal that insidiously opens the door for a dishonorable retreat than he. It takes a Southernized Yankee, a renegade Radical, a pap seeking leech to squirm and lie, and make faces to suit the emergency ; but they never deceive anybody, and in time meet the contempt they richly merit.

I do so love to think of each day's events as just the development of His eternal plan all coming to pass in perfect order, and perfect harmony, and not one thing hurried over or out of ts [[its]] place.

The difference between an oyster and a chicken is, that one is best just out of the shell, and the other isn't. and always souring their haunts, if there are a sufficient number of them to do it. You may do something towards preventing this, but you cannot keep very large flocks very clean.

We have often seen it stated that no more than fifty hens should be kept in a hen-house twenty feet by ten. Except with constant care and cleaning, that number can not do very well in a smaller space.

The size of the flock must always depend upon the extent of the accommodations, and even then the large flocks can not be kept so cleanly and healthy as the small ones, and therefore are not in proportion so profitable——Cultivator and Country Gentleman.

The Drain of Silver to Asia.

It is admitted by all eminent authors who have written about the present supply of the precious metal that it far exceeds the demand of Curistendom, and its inevable fall in value is retarded only by exceptional and temporary circumstances, the chief of which is the remarkable stream of silver pouring into Asia. The Hindoos [[Hindus]] and Chinese and Japanese, are industrious and very populous nations, which have to import nearly all their gold and silver from abrard [[abroad]], and their capacity to absorb those metals increases as value declines, and as their stock becomes greater their wages rise, and they obtain the means to purchase more foreign goods, and after a time they will have as much coin proportionately to their productive powers as the Christian nations; and then their imports of merchandise will nearly equal their exports, and the importations of the precious metals will not be one-tenth of the present figure. 

Asia is called "the sink of silver" by Pliny, and it has deserved that name ever since, and will continue to deserve that name for an uncertain period in the future.

So long as we continue to consume so much tea, silk, rice, and other Asiatic products, and so long as they consume so few of our products, so long we must settle the difference by payment of the precious metals, and the precious metals will probably not decline much in value. But let the vessel of Asiatic trade, now half empty of silver, be once filled, as it will be in 5,10 or 15 years, and then we shall begin to feel the influence of the over-supply of the precious metals, and their market value will fall rapidly.

Christendom and Asia may be compared to two tubs standing side by side, and connected by a large open tube half way from the ground, and the supply of the precious metals to a stream of water falling into the tub representing Christendom. Before the tube was well opened, the level rose very rapidly in the firs tube; but now the stream poars [[pours]] so swiftly into the second, that the level can scarcely rise at all in the first. When the liquid gets up to the same level in both tubs then it will rise with equal pace in both.-Ross Browne's Report for 1807. 

"Well," said the father who has made the best use of his peach?"

All three exclaimed, "Brother Edmund!" But Edmund was silent, and his mother embraced him with tears in her eyes.

A LITTHE MISSION GIRL.

A little mission girl knelt one night by her bed to pray. She was thinking of the Sunday school teacher and o what she had heard of Jesus, and she began to hear a soft voice saying, "Sarah, Sarah, I died for you on the Cross. I love you. Sarah, won't you love me?"

This soft voice she heard in her heart, not in her ear; so she began to feel her heart getting warmer, and it whispered to her, "Oh, how  He did love me. Yes, I must love Him. I am going to begin now." So she said to Jesus——for she knew that it was His voice she heard in her heart——"Jesus, I am only a poor little girl, but I want to love you. It is hard to do right, but I want to do it, and I want to come to you."

She got up the next morning, and the next, and the next, and pretty soon the lady she was living with began to say, "Why, what is the matter with Sarah? what had come over her? How nice she keeps everything, and how careful she is. When she takes the baby to nurse she does not drop it, and she does not leave her work and run out to play, and she does not tell any more lies. What has come over her?"

Ah, she has go something in her heart. What is it? Jesus, Jesus! Yes. Who was helping her every day? Jesus. And by and by the mistress said, "Sarah has something in her heart that she said not use to have." It was Jesus.

Do not you want to have Jesus in your heart? Do not you want to take Him home to your house? He will come if you want Him to. Does He not love little children? Oh, yes, dearly.——Child's paper.

SHORT PROCESS FOR SAVING BACON

——Make a solution of salt in hot water (beat raised as high as the fire will make it); put the pork in the hot brine, with as much animal heat as possible. Let the hams and shoulders be kept in three minutes and a half, and the middlings two and a half minutes, and then bang them immediately up and smoke them, and you have a choice article of bacon in a very short time to what you will by the usual process, as well as saving four-fifths of your salt.

This process will answer any time between November and April. I have saved much in this way for six or eight years. See that you keep a small portion of salt, during the process, in the bottom of your vessel, yo be certain your brine is sufficiently strong during the whole process.

As a necessary consequence, this amount of work furnished employment to a great number of binders, and rendered the art of binding one of considerable importance at that period. The king himself had many of the volumes bound in velvet, surmounted with gold ornaments, and it is believed that during his reign the stamping of tools in gold was first practiced. Queen Elizabeth, who succeeded Henry VIII., made some exquisite  book coverings of embroidery with her own hands, and after bedecking books of devotion, etc., with them presented them to her friends and admirers. But to a French nobleman, named Jean Grolier, is the credit due for being the first to introduce lettering upon the backs of books, and for a mott elegant style of ornamentation. He delighted in having the sides of his books ornamented with beautiful patterns, most of which he designed himself. His books were all bound in calf, or smooth morocco, and the design peculiar to himself consisted of intersected line work, performed by hand, with curves, and an occasional flower or leaf. Sometimes these patterns were inlaid with morocco of various colors. His books are much sought after by connoisseurs in the art, on account of the great beauty and elegance of their binding.——Christian Index. 

GAMBLING.——The prevalence of the social evil known as gambling, in every class of the community, is exciting the attention of those politicians who are also moralists. Betting, one of the most popular forms of this ruinous vice, is becoming associated with every amusement of English life, from horse-racing to household games. The debasing effects of this habit are visible amongst men of every rank and age; and the fool's argument of a bet assails one's ears in every street and public assembly in England. If respectable newspapers would cease to give the gambling news as they give the markets and the debates, it would greatly discourage the vice of which we complain. It is fast getting to be one of the recognised institutions of the country. Some of our pulpits would be doing more good than they now do, if they were to give us less polemical declamation and more faithful preaching against the moral evils of the day, the living devils that honest men have to do battle with every hour. A few of the London papers——conspicuously among them the Methodist Recorder——are inviting attention to this growing curse of gambling.——Hastings' and St Leonard's News.

Some one has beautifully said : "Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

flowing of a stream supplied by the equanimity of mind or the conscious integrity of soul which belong to the virtuous and holy. Cheerfulness is but another expression for the serenity of soul Jesus had and which breathes from his portrait drawn by the Divine Artist within the gospels, although there is no record of laughter connected with it.

Nay, not only is laughter not necessary to cheerfulness but on the other hand, this may be expressed by tears. Have you never heard of one "weeping for joy?" Some thirteen years ago a young man stood in the pulpit I now occupy : he was preaching his "trial sermon" before the Presbytery of Baltimore. There was nothing pathetic in the discourse by which to move the audience to tears, and the grave Presbyters sat there calmly judging whether or not he were qualified to preach the Word of God. But there was one man there, amidst the congregation, and he a ruling elder, who was powerfully overwhelmed by the service. He was the venerable father of the candidate in the pulpit. I saw him wiping away tear after tear as they trickled down his cheeks! Why did he weep? Not because, like many a heart-broken parent, he had to mourn over a son, besotted, debauched, ruined, disgracing the parental name, and cursing the mother that bore him, and bringing the father's grey hairs with sorrow to the grave! No, he wept for joy! He wept under the overwhelming fact that there was the babe he had consecrated to God in infancy: the child trained by an anxious mother in the nurture and admonition of the Lord: the boy of many fears and hopes: the only son for whom he had toiled: the youth of a thousand temptations and of as many prayers: now a young man of noble form, of cultivated intellect, of a sanctified heart, and withal, commissioned of the court of heaven to preach the blessed gospel of Jesus Christ! It was for this consummation of his highest earthly hopes that he wept! What father, what mother, who ever heard the most powerful notes of eloquence from the lips of a darling son, standing within the Senate Chamber, or heard he acclamations of praise greeting a son as he returned from the tented field, the nation's conqueror, what such parent ever enjoyed the pure gladness of that parent within that temple of God!

But alas, every joy connected with our poor frail humanity must fails us, however pure that joy may be: but a few months of a most promising ministry passed and the young preacher died! Yet that light went not out, it only faded away into that Greater Light——the Sun of Righteousness! Here is the only unfailing source of true enjoyment, and it is peculiarly the portion of the righteous: it is unlimited and inexhaustible, for it springs from the eternal purpose of God in Christ, and it flows on parallel with an endless future! It was opened in the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, and it springs up into everlasting life! Hence it is the duty as well as the privilege of the Christion to be joyful above the world-ling; he has received unspeakably more and therefore ought to be unceasingly thankful. "Rejoice always; and again, I say, rejoice."
J. H. K., of Md. 

The neighbours——several in number——were summoned to behold the scene. Finally, a lad seized the snake by the tail, and placing a forked stick on its head, uncoiled his folds from around the cat. This done, both cat and snake lay with their gaze fastened up, on each other, nor was the charm broken until the serpent died. As several ladies in the city were witness of the above, its reality will not be questioned."

THE RAMIE.——This remarkable plant has continued to be this year propagated with great success in Louisiana Texas and Mississippi. Last spring the plants grown on a piece of ground in Louisiana were kept for cleaning by the Roezl machine, the result of which we hen stated, but as the fibre was not then and thereby made perfectly soft and pliable, it was sent by Mr. Bruckner, one of the agents of Mr. Roezl, to Germany, where by a process used there, it has been made so soft, pliable and clear of any substance foreign to it as a textile, that we thought it must surely be silk, until we examined it closely, and saw that it was the vegetable fibre of ramie.

Mr. Bruckner tells us that the ramie can be prepared and made thus fine and altogether silk-like at a cost not to exceed two cents per pound, and them it will be vastly superior to the linen floss, which sells at from six to eight dollars per pound when made into thread and will certainly be worth, unspun, a dollar a pound.——Weekly Picayune.


TEN GOOD RULES.——Choose the path of virtue, and imitate a high pattern.

Do all the good in thy power, and let every action be useful.

Cultivate thy mind carefully——it will be a store of pleasing reflection.

Be diligent in thy business, and strictly upright in thy dealings.

Investigate affairs closely, and engage in them cautiously.

Lay thy plans with prudence, and be prepared with emergencies.

In all difficulties be patient, and overcome them by perseverance.

Do that which needs doing most.

Have a place for everything and everything in its place.

In all things be economical without meanness, and combine utility with elegance.

Sickness should teach us what a vain thing the world is, what a vile this sin is, what a poor thing man is, and what a precious thing an interest Christ is.

Keep yourself from opportune and God will keep you from sins

Practice flows from princip as a man thinks, so will we act.